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Open AI's new audio APIs aim for conversational voice agents
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (116+ words) Open AI introduced three audio models for its developer platform on Thursday, aiming to make voice-based software agents more conversational and capable of completing tasks in real time. The new models are GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate and GPT-Realtime-Whisper. Open AI said they…...
South Africa risks losing a generation of developers to AI
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (538+ words) The integration of AI into software development is not merely another industry trend. It represents a fundamental restructuring of how technology is built, who builds it and how engineering talent is cultivated. For South Africa, a country that has positioned…...
What defines a top software development company today?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (372+ words) Most software doesn't fail all at once. It drifts. What starts as a well-structured system slowly becomes harder to change, new features take longer, integrations become fragile and workarounds creep in where clean solutions used to exist. Nothing is obviously…...
SA start-up uses AI to build websites for R69/month
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (453+ words) Lekker. build is an AI-powered website builder that guides users through a series of natural language prompts, allowing them to build their own production-grade website for just R69/month. Created by South African entrepreneur Anthony van Tonder, the lekker. build platform…...
SA start-up Hyper Dev wants to turn your AI-built app into a real company
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (697+ words) Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses " and a South African start-up thinks it knows why. Hyper Dev is an AI-powered software development tool that…...
From Linux chaos to AI precision: the maturation of LSD Open
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (621+ words) About four years ago, LSD Open hit a real crossroads. We were this scrappy but cool 30-person Linux/open-source niche services company with a massive reputation for technical wizardry. However, the internal structure was basically held together by duct tape,…...
Vibe coding is transforming development - but at what cost to open source?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (607+ words) A paper from the Central European University (CEU) in January found that vibe coding " driven by AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable " decreases the depth to which developers engage with code, documentation, libraries and other developers....
Beyond the prompt: Why the future of enterprise AI is hybrid and agentic
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (297+ words) A few years ago, I wrote about how product teams shouldn't care about Kubernetes. The goal was to build "golden paths" through internal developer platforms that abstract away infrastructure complexity, allowing engineers to focus on shipping value rather than the…...
New Grok coding tool challenges Microsoft and Open AI dominance
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (184+ words) Elon Musk's artificial intelligence start-up, x AI, on Thursday released a new "speedy and economical" agentic coding model, marking its entry into a key focus area for AI companies. An agentic coding tool is an AI-powered software application that can…...